Day 1: Saigon city tour

Arriving at the airport, after clearing immigration and customs, you will be met and privately transferred to a hotel. In the afternoon, car and guide pick up for half day city tour visit: Reunification Palace, War Remnant Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, Old Post office, Dong Khoi Street, Ben Thanh market, Thien Hau Pagoda, China Town. Free at the rest of day. Stay overnight in Saigon.

(MLT – HOMESTAY)

Day 2: Saigon – Ben Tre boat trip (B, D)

In the morning, car and guide pick you up at the hotel. Transfer to Ben Tre. Arriving in Ben Tre, you will be welcome at the Hung Vuong pier.

The boat will cruise along the Ham Luong river (a branch of the Mekong) and stop off at various local workplaces to give you a picture of how the local economy works, including a brickworks, where bricks are still painstakingly made by hand; a coconut processing workshop, where you can sample fresh coconut and see how every single part of this versatile nut is turned into food and other products; and a mat weaving house, where straw mats are woven using a hand loom – you can even have a go at weaving yourself!

The boat will then stop at a quiet village where you can have a short walk to experience real Delta village life, before boarding your “xe loi” (a kind of motorized rickshaw) and travelling into the forest where you can visit fruit orchards before stopping at a riverside restaurant for a delicious and filling lunch, featuring such local specialties as elephant-ear fish and river shrimp, washed down with some cold drinks or beers.

After lunch, you will then hop onto a bicycle for a fun ride through the forest to Mr Khanh’s house. He is a passionate antiques collector and his house is jam packed full of fascinating artefacts from Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia. He also has some fascinating family albums dating back to French colonial times.

You will then get back on your bike and cycle back to the family home where you will have a cooking lesson featuring local dishes such as chicken with lemongrass and turmeric and green papaya salad. Stay overnight at Home stay in Ben Tre.

Day 3: Ben Tre – Can Tho city (B)

08:00, pick up and cycle to temple and market in Phu Nhuan (approx 1,5 hours). Back to home stay. It’s time to board a sampan for a relaxing trip along narrow canals. Take boat back to pier. The car meets you at the pier and transfer to Can Tho.

Arriving in Can Tho, check in the hotel. Stay overnight in Can Tho city.

Day 4: Can Tho Sightseeing – Saigon (B)

In the early morning, pick up at your hotel, then we depart to the port for riding boat to see round Cai Rang Floating Market (the most unique market in Vietnam) with local people being selling, buying, and exchanging goods from their boats. Walk around to see orchard, rice paper making, rice crispiest producing process…, and more visit to local gardens, taste the Coconut Milk, fresh fruits. Landing on the local people village to visit rice noodles and rice papers workshops of local people, people warmly welcome you with fruits served in farmers' gardens.

In the afternoon, ride on a car or a bicycle to Binh Thuy Ancient House. Observe the rural life and enjoy the beautiful vegetation along the riverbanks.

Say good bye Can Tho city, drive back to Saigon. We’ll arrive in Saigon at late afternoon, check in hotel. Stay overnight in Saigon.

Day 5: Saigon – Departure (B)

After breakfast, drive to Cu Chi tunnels. We will visit a network of 200km long underground dug-out which was being used during the Vietnam – USA war. There is little evidence to indicate the intense fighting, bombing and destruction that went on in Cu Chi during the war.

Back to Saigon, transfer to Tan Son Nhat international airport for flight to your home or next destinations. End of our services in Vietnam.